Another homebrewed holster

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Another homebrewed holster

Well, enough of you guys did it first, so I decided to try my own hand at making a holster. I have never made anything with leather before, so this is not perfect by any means. I looked at a book at a leather hobby shop to figure out how to make a pattern and then just made this one up. Mostly, I had no idea what I was doing, but it was fun.

I call it the Model 177 since I used a piece of scrap that had "177" scratched into it from the tanning place. Here goes:

I don't have any pictures with it on because the dye is still wet.

I did try it on before I dyed it, and I am not very happy with the way the gun sticks out in front.

The cant and position on the belt vertically seems just right. I think the slot pulls the rear of the gun too close to the body while the front sort of sticks out. The next one will have a belt loop position similar to this: